1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

It is specially interesting to follow the progress of the best twelveriders during the race and see which of them were to the fore at thevarious control stations, and which of them, from the times they hadhitherto made, could be picked out as the winner. We shall examinethe times at the control station at Eskilstuna, a little more than onethirdof the distance; at that of Köping, which may be consideredas the place where the road turned towards Stockholm; at the Västeråscontrol station, when not quite two-thirds of the 320 kilometres( ca. 192 miles) had been covered, and at the last three control stations,Enköping, Bålsta and Järfva. After the last-mentioned stationshave been passed, it is easy to place the leaders, and it can be seenthat there will be put little difference between them at the finish, anexception, perhaps, being made in the case of Lewis, who can bepicked as a safe winner.At the control station at Eskilstuna, 120 kilometres (72 miles) fromthe start, after somewhat more than one-third of the total distance hadbeen covered, the first twelve men were:No. Lewis South Africa hrs. min. secs.Hill ScotlandMeredith EnglandSchutte U. S. A.Kopsky U. S. A.Persson SwedenBrown CanadaWilson ScotlandGrubb EnglandMalm SwedenRaita FinlandMoss EnglandThe times show how very evenly the competitors were matched upto this point.The first twelve men to reach Köping (the turning point), ca. 165kilometres (99 miles) from the start, were :No.LewisMeredithMalmWilsonGrubbSchutteKrushelRaitaHillBrownPerssonKopskySouth AfricaEnglandSwedenScotlandEnglandU. S. AU. S. A.FinlandScotlandCanadaSwedenU. S. A.hrs. min. secs.Here we see that No. 74, Moss (England) has had to make wayfor Krushel, a representative of the U. S. A., who has placed himselfseventh. There are a number of other changes, too, and it can benoticed that the interval between the second man and the twelfth hasgrown greater, for while at Eskilstuna, the difference between the secondand the last man was less than 4 minutes, it is about 7 here.440